Extrapolating from a conversation on IRC today...
I swear OkCupid is the place budding 'web 2.0' programmers go to see how badly they can screw up a busy site, and still stay in business.
They've gone through a dozen site 'overhauls' in the last few years, rewriting the entire thing into some new funky dynamic design that not only fails to implement features they had working in the old design, but also tends to breaks most browsers. Then they spend the next few months 'fixing' problems with the new site, until most folks have forgotten about the missing features...
AND THEN THEY DO IT AGAIN.
Dear OkCupid. We know you're a site that caters to up and coming jetset socialites and the like, but please... Stabilize your site, lock down a feature set, and stick with it. When you roll a new site? Make sure all the features still work? It's really not that hard.
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